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Alan Pope wrote: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 08:29:15AM +0100, Neil Winchurst wrote: > >> So to my question, can Linux handle a mobile phone camera or not? >> > Some phones come with an IRDA interface, some USB, some Bluetooth, some with > a mixture. Some newer ones even have wifi. > >> Looking through digikam etc only 'normal' digital cameras are mentioned. >> Nothing is said about mobile phone cameras. > 've not tried going down that route. My laptop has bluetooth built in, but > my desktop has one of those el-cheapo USB bluetooth dongles. I use the > standard Gnome OBEX/bluetooth stuff to receive pictures I send from my > phone. It's really as simple as "select all" on the phone then "send all - > via bluetooth". I then choose the machine I want to send to, they handshake > and the pictures get sent. > > That's it really, it Just Works for me. > > A friend of mine has gone a step further and scripted his Linux box to ping > his phone, and when it's in range, pull the pictures off it and upload to > his weblog. > > Cheers, > Al. I just "upgraded" (well, it's a hand-me-down) to a 'phone with inbuilt camera. It has IR, but alas my laptop doesn't. I have bluetooth on my Desktop (by way of a cheap dongle), but alas the 'phone doesn't. So, I went and bought a USB cable for the 'phone. There are a number of applications that support interfacing with a camera using this method. I found "kmobiletools" does well at pulling SMS messages off the 'phone, and 'phone numbers, etc, etc. I found "gnokii" does a good job of pulling all other media off the 'phone. This has 2 elements to it, the command line tool (gnokii) and the GUI tools (xgnokii) - however, it is just a flashy front-end to the command line tool, so that needs to work first. :p Hope this helps. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html